Assumption College Grant Funded Projects to be Presented at Union Station

Worcester, MA—The Second Annual Research Program Conference for Educators, Environmentalists, and Transportation Professionals will be held on Saturday June 8, 2002 at Union Station, Worcester, MA from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Conference presentations will feature the curriculum and science research projects that were supported by the Assumption College University Transportation Center and completed over the course of this past year. The majority of these projects demonstrate the variety of ways in which the UTC theme Transportation and Environmental Education for the 21st Century may be incorporated into regular classroom instruction.

The following presentations will be made through-out the day.

“Railroad Bridge Safety and Biotic Factors” – principal investigator: Margaret Bondar, Greendale School, Worcester, MA

“Blackstone River Studies” – principal investigator: Michael Ferry, Woonsocket High School, Woonsocket, RI

“Sub-Watershed Hydrologic Study of the Worcester Area” – principal investigator: Mauri Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA

“Mill Communities: Inland Waterways and the Architecture of Early Industrial New England” – principal investigator: Barbara Beall, Assumption College, Worcester, MA

“Discovering Our Industrial Past” – principal investigator: Sharon Berridge, Shaw Elementary School, Millbury, MA

“AppalLEGO City-Using LEGO Robotics to Model Intelligent Transportation Systems” – principal investigator: Linda Hamilton, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

“Community Connections: A Historical Tour of Valley Transportation” – principal investigators: Tammy Gilpatric and Natalie Carter, Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Pawtucket, RI

“Changes in Transportation: 1825-2002” – principal investigator: Janice Chase, Shaw Elementary School, Millbury, MA

“Student Conducted Studies of MTBE Oxidation in Ionic Liquids” – principal investigator: Brian Niece, Assumption College,
Worcester, MA

“Worcester Earn-A-Bike” – principal investigator: Gregory Root, Worcester Chapter, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, Worcester, MA

For more information on each of these projects, please go to the project proposals for the 2001-2002 academic year at http://www.assumption.edu/utc/research/grants01.htm